Hi Martin

I have used the following code for exactly the same thing in Umbraco v6. I have a NewsArticle document type and the following partial view displays the latest 2 news articles on the home page

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@{
    // Get root node:
    var root = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(); 

   // Get the 2 newest 'NewsArticle' pages

    var nodes = root.Descendants("NewsArticle").OrderBy("ArticleDate desc").Take(2);

      // Then Loop through the filtered nodes, displaying the properties
   }

<table class="table table-striped table-condensed table-bordered">    
    <tbody>  


      @foreach (var node in nodes)
    {
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span class="label label-success">

               @if (node.GetProperty("articleDate").HasValue())
               {
               @Convert.ToDateTime(node.GetPropertyValue("articleDate")).ToString("dd-MM-yy")
               }
                else
                {                                     
                   @node.CreateDate.ToString("dd-MM-yy")                 
                }      


            </span>&nbsp;

            <a href="@node.Url">@node.Name</a>
            <p>
            @node.GetPropertyValue("leadText")
            </p>
            </td>

        </tr>
    } 


    </tbody>

</table>

On my home page template/view the partial view is displayed as follows

  @Html.Partial("NewsMini")